Aligned! 2025: From Child Find to IEP Implementation
Registration Now Open!
Join education professionals from across the state for this exciting free virtual conference as we explore child find, evaluation, admission, review, and dismissal (ARD) supports, transition, and early childhood special education (ECSE) topics. The Aligned! 2025: From Child Find to IEP Implementation conference provides expertise, best practices, and networking supports to assist public school district and charter schools.
Audience:
- Educational Diagnosticians
- School Psychologists
- Speech-Language Pathologists
- Transition specialists and teachers
- ECSE specialists and teachers
- Dyslexia specialists and teachers, including providers of dyslexia instruction
- Special Education Teachers
- Administrators
- ARD committee managers/facilitators
General Session and Breakout Session Topics Include:
- General Session
- State of the State Child Find and Evaluation
- Child Find and Evaluation
- Comprehensive Evaluation of Developmental Delay
- Implications for Evaluation Personnel: Quality Rubric for a Full and Individual Initial Evaluation (FIIE)
- ARD Membership and Dual Roles: Navigating the Challenge of Limited Personnel Review of Existing Evaluation Data (REED) Process
- IEP Content and Development
- Standards-Based IEPs for Ages 3-5: Building Comprehensive and Aligned Present Levels of Academic Achievement and Functional Performance (PLAAFP)
- Access to General Curriculum Practices and beyond: Leveraging Special Education Supports and Services to Maximize Student Success
- Early Childhood Special Education (ECSE)
- Enhancing Early Learning: Using the Early Childhood Outcomes and Prekindergarten Alignment Document to Support Every Student
- State Performance Plan Indicator (SPPI) 7 Unpacked: From Development to Reporting
- Seamless Transitions: Understanding ECSE Services and SPPI 12 for Young Learners
- Transition
- Cyclical Monitoring for Secondary Transition: What Review and Support is Seeing During Visits
- Bridging Goals to Action: Writing Effective Coordinated Activities in Transition Planning
- Speech-Language Pathologists
- Breaking Up is Hard to Do: Dismissal from Speech-Language Therapy
- Crafting Clarity: Standards-Based PLAAFP Writing for Speech-Language Pathologists
Access a library of pre-recorded sessions on evaluation, behavior, ARD supports (IEP content and development), MTSS, transition, child find, evaluation, and ECSE.
CPE Credits:
Up to 12 CPE credit hours will be available for all attendees who participate in the live, synchronous sessions.
Recorded, asynchronous sessions will be available for 30 calendar days following the conference. CPE credit hours are not available for recorded, asynchronous sessions. The session costs are fully funded through state and/or federal grants.
